 When Welles submitted the film to ABC, they complained that they only received one reel of unorthodox material which they deemed unshowable, and it was never broadcast.Two years earlier, Welles had made another TV program, on Alexandre Dumas, père.It too was rejected as being incompetent, while a further programme made in 1956, "The Fountain of Youth", was originally rejected on similar grounds (although it ended up getting a late-night screening in 1958, resulting in a Peabody Award).